December 2014
A door closes
... crisis is in sight. Many western and Russian commentators have declared the outbreak of ‘Cold War II’. That is far from the mark. The original Cold War was a global existential struggle in a bipolar world dominated by two superpowers – the United...
18 February 2018
Space Launch Complex 10: Vandenberg’s Cold War National Landmark
The history of rocketry and space tends to be written either by university professors as an academic exercise or by journalists and other writers with a life-long interest in the subject. This book is different in that its author is a former US Air ...
March 2015
Russia and safe space initiatives
...the West, there is a lot of talk of a risk of a new Cold War. This scenario is dangerous but hardly realistic. Russia, for its part, is fully... arms race. One of the worst elements of the Cold War was the arms race between the Soviet Union and the...
August 2016
Space stations - drivers of cooperation
... be seen as a ‘residue’ of the World War 2 and Cold War eras when competition in outer space rather than international ... Westphalia, which signalled the end of the great 30 year war. Despite the current efforts of law-makers, what applies on...
February 2017
Protecting our space interests
... between the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War, most actors in outer space, space agencies and commercial satellite...become another battlefield. This risk was high during the Cold War but both the Soviet Union and the USA decided...
June 2018
Space 2080 a future perspective
... ‘useful space’ came from an unexpected direction. Who indeed could have foreseen that the competition born of Cold War that carried the first men into Earth orbit would one day be replaced by international cooperation? This...
